250 Quotes by Richard Ford

That said, being dyslexic, I wasn't a great reader when I was kid.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.

Well, I believe in the idea of 'normal' in the way that I believe in the idea of logic. Or the idea of character. All of these ethical constructs are just that: constructs.

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.

I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we got married in 1968, we were pretty nose-down toward what we wanted to do, and having a child was going to be an excuse to fail.

I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.